MACAO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The number of visitor arrivals to Macao grew by 29.6 percent month-to-month to 581,986 in October, but the figure still represented a decline of 81.9 percent year-on-year, the Macao Special Administrative Region's (SAR) statistic department said on Tuesday.
The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that overnight visitors and same-day visitors totaled 308,222 and 273,764 respectively.
Due to a growth of 7.0 percentage points in the proportion of overnight visitors which stood at 53.0 percent, the average stay length of visitors went up by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.4 days.
The average stay length of overnight visitors rose by 0.3 day year-on-year to 2.7 days, whereas that for same-day visitors shortened by 0.1 day to 0.1 day.
In terms of source market, the number of mainland visitors fell by 77.0 percent year-on-year to 539,482 in October. Meanwhile, there were 37,909 visitors from the Hong Kong SAR and 4,574 from China's Taiwan region.
Analyzed by means of entry, visitor arrivals by land totaled 543,497 in October, and 81.5 percent of them arrived through the Border Gate. Visitor arrivals by air and by sea totaled 26,778 and 11,711 respectively.
In the first 10 months of 2020, the number of visitor arrivals declined by 86.2 percent year-on-year to 4,601,090. The number of same-day visitors and overnight visitors slid by 85.9 percent and 86.6 percent year-on-year respectively to 2,493,147 and 2,107,943.
The average stay length of visitors went up by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.4 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.6 day to 2.8 days, while that of same-day visitors remaining unchanged at 0.2 day.
The number of visitor arrivals to Macao almost doubled month-to-month in September, as the mainland authorities have resumed the issuance of travel permit for mainland residents as tourists to Macao that month. Enditem
